Garment-supporter.



No. 674,56l. Patented May 2|, 190i. M. A. IRVING. GARMENT SU PPORTER.

(Application filed Dec. 26, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARGARET ANN IRVING, OF VICTORIA, CANADA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent N 0. 674,561, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed December 26, 1900. Serial No. 41,088. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARGARET ANN IRVING, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, have invented an Improvement in Garment- Supporters; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in garment-supporting devices such as are intended to hold the bodice portion of the dress and the skirt together.

It consists of the parts and the constructions and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a view showing the application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional end view. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the hook arranged for a pulley-belt. Fig. 4 is a view of the garment-supporter.

Much difficulty has been experienced in finding a satisfactory means of keeping the waistbands of the bodice portion of feminine garments ordinarily known as shirt-waists in close union with the waistband of the skirt, the tendency of the one always being to draw upward and of the other to sag. Such separation is always most uncomely. To obviate this difficulty, I have provided a device which consists of a thin metal plate or bar A, slightly concaved to conform to the waist-line of the body. There isa longitudinaland central portion 2 cut out, and near either end and upon the upper edge of the plate are notches 3. The projections left between these notches and the central out-out portions are adapted to retain a pin I, by which the plate is se-- cured to the band of the bodice or shirtwaist. Hooks 5 upon the waistband of the skirt engage the notches 3 and hold the two garments in close union. To the lower edge of the plate and centrally thereof at 6 there maybe pivotally secured a hook B. This hook has its shank made in two portions slidable upon each other, .one portion carryinga button I), engaging in holes b in the other portion, by which the hook is firmly held in any of the lengths to which it maybe adjusted. This hook B is for the purpose of holding in position the belt of leather, ribbon, &c., usually worn about the waist. In the case of a leather belt this hookis turned upwardly on its pivot 6, so that the hook portion is above the plate A and turned outwardly. With a ribbon or pulley belt the hook B is pendent from the plate and the hook portion turned inwardly. The button I) and holes b allow an adjustment of the hook to varying Widths of belts.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a garment-supporter,the combination of a plate adapted to be secured to the bodice, and engaging devices 011 the waistband, and a hook depending from the lower edge of the plate and capable of engaging a belt from above or below, said hook including two members one slidable on the other and one of said members having means interlocking with the other member whereby the length of the hook maybe increased and one member held in an extended position.

2. A garment -supporter consisting of a plate or bar, means by which it may be secured to a garment, notches on the upper edge of this plate, a hook pivotally secured to the lower edge of the plate, the hook portion, in its pendent position,turned inwardly, the shank oft-he hook extendible, and means by which the length of this shank portion may be held in extended position.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

MARGARET ANN IRVING.

Witnesses:

IVANKA BENNET, THORNTON FELL. 

